Posted on 07/22/2022 8:49:18 PM PDT by lightman
The first major peer-reviewed study of monkeypox infections has found that the virus is primarily being transmitted through the sexual activity of gay and bisexual men in the United States and around the world.
The Journal of New England Medicine on Thursday published a study that looked at monkeypox infection across 16 countries between April and June, when cases began to emerge in countries outside of Africa.
The study reported on 528 infections diagnosed between April 27 and June 24, of which 98 percent were in gay or bisexual men with a median age of 38. Of these cases, 95 percent of the infections were suspected to have been transmitted through sexual activity—41 percent also had HIV.
Disease experts and officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) don’t consider monkeypox a sexually transmitted infection but have always said it could be transmitted through intimate contact, such as sex. It can also be spread by close contact and even infected clothing and bedding.
Until this year, monkeypox virus infection in humans has been rare outside of Africa, where it is endemic but mostly spread from animals. But there are now more than 16,000 cases worldwide in countries that mostly have not historically had monkeypox, according to the CDC.
Most of the cases appear to be in North America and Western Europe, where some of the first cases were linked to major LGBT events in Spain and Belgium, considered ground zero for facilitating transmission of the virus.
The leading theory among disease experts is that the monkeypox virus was sexually transmitted at those events.
An uptick in recent U.S. cases suggests transmission occurred at the tail end of Pride Month in late June and early July, based on the study finding that incubation is between three and 20 days (usually seven days). Former Trump Health Officials Blame CDC
CDC officials were hesitant to recommend canceling marquee U.S. LGBT events, similar to the super spreading events in Europe that occurred the month prior.
LGBT event organizers were also treading carefully in the spring, wanting to avoid stigmatizing the LGBT community. U.S. health officials opted instead to boost targeted messaging to warn gay and bisexual men, who were deemed most at risk.
But officials should have done more, says Dr. Paul Alexander, a former Trump administration health official and researcher.
“All this needed was leadership saying no skin to skin contact, no anal sex, no sex, none for a few weeks and we would have helped this high risk group, but no, it’s political games and now the low-risk general heterosexual population is at risk especially from bisexual males,” Alexander wrote in a blog post.
The blog post also included a Twitter thread by a gay U.S. man recounting in graphic detail his experience with contracting monkeypox during an orgy in Palm Springs.
Alexander expressed concern that bisexual men could facilitate the spreading of the monkeypox virus outside of the LGBT community to heterosexuals. In fact, the CDC has said they know of eight cases in women and two new cases in children—one a toddler and the other an infant, BBC News reported.
“Heterosexuals could spread this if one partner is infected and there is rough abrasive sex that involves tearing of tissue,” Alexander added.
“This is not about being ‘gay,’ the virus is transmitted in bodily fluids and infected pustules and lesions in the infected person, through any tears on the skin or tissue e.g. rectal micro lesions etc,” he continued. “If heterosexuals engage in anal sex and one is infected with monkeypox or another [sexually transmitted disease], the other will get infected if there is tissue tearing.”
Although monkeypox infection generally clears up within a couple of weeks without the need for medical treatment, it has hospitalized some who experience severe anorectal pain, severe sore throats, and acute kidney injury.
This isn't the first time that bisexuals have been plague vectors and this won't be the last.
What a scourge!
There already a couple of young kids in California who have it.
Just like with AIDS there will be innocents who catch it from casual contact or blood transfusions.
Best thing is to quarantine the sick now, Much better solution than lockdowns or other measures. 1972 cases in the US now. The longer they wait, the harder quarantine of the sick becomes . And the greater the likelihood it will spread to wild small rodents and set up an animal reservoir in the US.
Anal sex isn’t what it’s cracked up to be.
I wonder if they plan to lock them down?
That train already left the station.
Aggressive intervention is effective ONLY if undertaken very early on.
But we have learned very little since January 2020.
By the Ides of March 2020 it was already too late.
Bisexuals are closeted homos that spread their diseases to heterosexual females, many of whom don't know that the men in their lives are having ass sex with other men.
Do you think that God may be sending a warning about certain lifestyles ?
It sure appears that way.
Fauci was instrumental in the 80’s saying AIDS could hit anyone, equally likely.
It was a scare tactic he repeated with Covid.
They’ll do the same here.
Aye, they are a plague unto themselves...and countless others.
So to make a long story short, Monkeypox are primarily transmitted by male-looking, democRAT voters.
“Pride” month’s gift to the mid terms.
Sounds gay.
Not true. Did you just make that up? DIdn't the US try to stay out of both World Wars. We got pulled in late, but aggressive intervention was effective in both cases.
One could say that we've let Ukraine significantly weaken Russia. So if in the future, we do have to go in, it will be a mop up operation.
I think we should have been aggressive and giving Ukraine much better weapons early on. Letting the war drag out even to further weaken Russia, costs lives of both Ukrainians and Russians, and it means more cities and homes and workplaces destroyed.
The subject here is infectious diseases and public health intervention measures.
You make good points about geopolitics and intervention in global contacts, but that is entirely off-topic.
Raise your hand if you think they’ll push contact tracing for monkey pox.
Yep, its amazing that early Biblical writers figured that out thousands of years ago, but some how its been missed by our modern medical establishment.
They should just say its an Its an STD.
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